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CHAPTER 6: SWEET
As the final semester exams arrive, students prepare for a stressful week. Without exception, Halwah and Kalan, or call it Halwah itself? For two days the girl struggled with a pile of textbooks every night, the school closed the first and second classes for the National Examination. However, after those four days had passed, it was their turn who would fight for the fate of ascending or not ascending classes.
kalan is the opposite of Halwah. The young man just lies lazily all day on the sofa or a casual corner in front of the TV with a snack made by their personal maid, who is, or sometimes Kalan will stand behind Halwah for a few minutes which makes Halwah as if out of breath because, feeling stubborn.
And today is still the same, but tomorrow the two will hold the final exam on the first day of the semester. However, Kalan was only busy playing lego on the room carpet. He did not speak at all after the two performed Islamic prayers together. In his busy learning, Halwah glanced at Kalan who was now just sitting quietly staring at the small refrigerator in their room.
The girl hung around in horror as she saw Kalan suddenly just smiled faintly. Quickly, Halwah refocused herself on a stack of mathematical formulas in front of her. Ignoring Kalan who has now stood a few inches behind him. Halwah tried to focus, but apparently could not.
He sighed and turned around, looking at Kalan with a tinge as red as a tomato on both cheeks. Therefore, Halwah feels she must now look ridiculous in front of her husband.
“You're still learning? Aren't you tired?” finally Kalan made a sound, this was much more soothing than Kalan who was able to stay still for a few days without letting his lips open.
“Heum! Tomorrow's the test, you're also supposed to be learning, right?”
Kalan nodded, then he passed downstairs without answering Halwah. Making the girl grieve and choose to ignore it, he does like Kalan, but his one nature always makes Halwah feel upset.
Not long after, Kalan returned with a big cup of chocolate ice cream and two small glasses and a scoop of ice cream. Halwah looked at Kalan in surprise when the young man immediately put what he brought onto the carpet then robbed all the piles of his next book back again and pulled Halwah to sit on the same carpet.
“What is this?” halwah asked in surprise, he looked at Kalan who this time took his laptop and turned it on. After the laptop turned on, he opened the ice cream cup and scooped it into the glass. The young man was silent for a while before taking Halwah's note and reading it.
“The combination of r elements of n elements is a subset of r elements that can be taken from n different elements with the order of arrangement of elements not observed.” Kalan read a line of sentences in the book, making Halwah blink innocently before chuckling.
“You learned?”
“The form is AB, BA, AC, CA, AD, DA, BC, CB, BD,DB, CD, and DC. If two letters are taken without regard to the sequence then the arrangement AB \= arrangement
BA, so on until the arrangement is obtained, namely AB, AC, AD, BC, BD, and CD. The choice made in this way is called a combination of 2 elements taken from 4 available elements. Thus, a combination can be defined as: A combination r of elements taken from n available elements (each different element) is a choice of r elements regardless of their order (r ⁇ ). Huh?”
Halwah was unable to hold back her laughter anymore, she drew closer to Kalan after scooping up once her ice cream. The book held by Kalan was seized slowly, the young man frowned in a sign that his handsome brain was at work.
“You didn't read the thing, Kalan. You leave the most important part, what you read is the explanation of the answer here,” obviously Halwah pointed to a series of formulas and numbers that Kalan deliberately steps because for him it is troublesome.
“I didn't know it was important,” reply Kalan with plain view. The young man stared at Halwah intensely, making the girl blush and rigidly throw his book on the carpet and then feed the ice cream with a full spoon. It made Halwah's teeth pulsate with pain.
“Kalan, you can't step over the thing. But, do you understand ‘kan combination system?” halwah asked, she covered her horror with a fake smile. Kalan nodded innocently. Both of them then fell silent and even coolly spooned ice cream into the mouth. Halwah who could not bear the coldness of choosing after deluan and reading the next material, let Kalan read his mathematical notebook.
Every now and then Halwah steals a glance, she will smile when Kalan shows an expression as if understanding the contents of his note. Somewhat considering far back, Halwah had heard gossip about the eldest Lazuardy who is famous for being good at literature and physics, but very hate mathematics.
“Price,”
“Why not like math lessons?”
Halwah fell silent, this time her gaze was centered on the firstborn Lazuardy who seemed to think. The young man stared back at Halwah then carved a knot that was so thin, resulting in the heartbeat of Halwah working harder than before.
“They are like monsters,” Kalan said while staring at Halwah's combination formula notes, “When the teacher explains and the book gives examples of how to do it, everything seems easy. Then, when they have been given assignments or exams, they turn out to be difficult and complicated. I don't like such flashy changes,” he continued then looked at Halwah and smiled faintly.
“Personal thoughts have nothing to do with the subjects?” halwah asked, he noticed each movement of Kalan that closed and kept his notebook slowly. The conglomerate movement is different.
“I never understood anything like that. What I always think is, when everyone learns the same thing and one of them excels in one privileged field, should I also excel in the same field? Why compete if we are created with different skills? Isn't everyone else just as great even if not in a different field?”
There was a serious tone in every word of Kalan, the young man twitched his forehead. His hair that is as dark as soot with twinkle eyes dimmed, adding to the beautiful impression of the face of Kalan which is indeed a beautiful sculpture of the Creator. That thing, makes Halwah grateful to get a soul mate with a beautiful face as Kalan.
“Papa always said, I must be good at all fields of education and sport. But, I never felt that smart people in all fields of education who were restrained by the ambitions of their parents were happy. If Halwah, knowing what it's like to be restrained by rules and obligations, Halwah must understand what I mean?” kalan continued while looking at Halwah.
The girl was stunned, not at the thin smile that was painted on Kalan's face. However, she now knows that the rumors about her husband who she said was quiet and irritated to talk were not true. Kalan is able to express his feelings and opinions well. Far different from him who is only a coward and prefers to keep everything.
“A-me..”
“Ah, Halwah must only be confined to family customary traditions, yes?”
That smile. The mysterious smile that Halwah believes has millions of feelings that Kalan has been unable to express so far. And when he said that he understood about how Kalan was trying to express his feelings, there was a bias of splendor emanated from the beautiful twinkle of the two beads of the young man.
“Thank God if you understand,”
Perhaps, everything was too fast or Halwah who did not know the meaning of what had happened just now. When Kalan actually began to keep his face away from Halwah's face, that's when the sixteen-year-old girl gasped in surprise while touching her slightly wet lips.
Kalan smiled, a wide smile that made the two beautiful beads squint.
“Manic. For now, it's okay ‘kan seprti earlier?”
“Ka-kalan.”.
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